Russia has raked in a whopping €158 billion (US$158 billion) in energy exports in the six months following its invasion of Ukraine, with the EU accounting for more than half, a think tank said on Tuesday (Sep 6). The Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air called for more

At least 30 people were reported killed in a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that shook China’s southwestern province of Sichuan on Monday, triggering landslides and shaking buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 million residents are already under a COVID-19 lockdown.

Liz Truss will become Britain’s 56th prime minister after a narrower-than-expected victory over Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership race. A protracted and bitter two-month contest came to an end as Truss was named the winner by Sir Graham Brady, head of the 1922 Committee, in

At least 21 people have been killed after a 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit southwestern China, state media said. The quake struck at 13:00 local time (05:00 GMT) in Sichuan province at a depth of 10km (6 miles). The impact severed telecommunications lines and triggered mountain

At least two people have been killed and 11 others injured after a suicide bomber detonated explosives near the entrance of the Russian embassy in Kabul, police said, adding the attacker was shot dead by armed guards as he approached the gate. “The suicide attacker, before

Britain finally learns who its next prime minister will be on Monday after two months of political uncertainty during which energy prices skyrocketed and tens of thousands of workers went on strike. The governing Conservative Party plans to announce whether Foreign Secretary Liz Truss

At least eight people were killed overnight in an earthquake in north-eastern Afghanistan and the toll could rise, according to an official quoted by the state news agency. "Sunday night's earthquake has caused financial and human losses in Kunar province," Mawlavi

Ten people have been killed and at least 15 wounded after two men went on a knife rampage in at least 13 locations in two communities in central Canada, according to police. Police responding to emergency calls on Sunday found 10 people dead in the Indigenous community of James Smith

Cyrus Mistry, the former Tata Group chairman, on Sunday died in a road accident in Maharashtra’s Palghar district.  Cyrus Mistry was travelling from Ahmedabad to Mumbai in a Mercedes car, police said. He was 54. Cyrus Mistry was the younger son of late Pallonji Mistry

Barack Obama is halfway to becoming an Egot after winning an Emmy award to go with his two Grammys. The former president won the best narrator Emmy on Saturday for his work on the Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks. The five-part show, which features national parks

Somali officials and residents say al-Shabab militants shot and killed at least 21 travelers in the country's central region of Hiran on Friday night. Speaking to VOA, Mahas District Commissioner Mumin Mohamed Halane said the killings occurred in the outskirts of Beledweyne, a town

China has warned the United States it will take "counter-measures" after the Biden administration approved more than $1.1 billion in arms sales to Taiwan. Chinese embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu said Saturday China was "firmly opposed" to the sales, which

A pilot is threatening to deliberately crash a small aeroplane into a Walmart shop as they circle above the US city of Tupelo, Mississippi, police say. The Walmart and another nearby store have been evacuated and citizens have been asked to avoid the area. Local police have warned

The leader of Myanmar’s military junta will travel to Russia next week for economic talks, state media in the Southeast Asian nation reported Saturday. Min Aung Hlaing’s visit comes as both governments face diplomatic isolation -- Moscow for its February invasion of

The US has agreed to sell $1.1bn (£955m) in weaponry to Taiwan, provoking anger from China. The proposed deal includes a radar system to track incoming strikes and anti-ship and anti-air missiles. It comes after US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi last month

Sri Lanka’s deposed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has returned home weeks after fleeing the crisis-hit country, officials said. The 73-year-old former leader landed in the capital, Colombo, on a Singapore Airlines flight from Thailand in the early hours of Saturday, local media

Russia's gas pipeline to Germany will not reopen as planned on Saturday, state energy firm Gazprom has said. The firm said it had found an oil leak in a turbine on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, meaning it would be closed indefinitely. The pipeline has been shut down for the past

An explosion at a mosque in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan killed a high-profile pro-Taliban scholar as well as more than a dozen civilians. Images on social media on Friday showed what appeared to be blood-stained bodies scattered around the mosque compound. There was no

Sri Lanka's former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to return to the island nation some time on Friday, after he fled anti-government protests in July, a spokesman from the Department of Information confirmed to The Straits Times.  Other informed sources said his

On 2nd September 1945, at Hanoi’s Ba Dinh Square, President Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independence proclaiming the birth of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (now the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam). The Declaration, which demonstrates the strong will and aspirations of